Re: [RFC] How should delete_resource() handle children?

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:12:18 +1100 Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
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| >On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:33:49 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| >| 
| >| If you call release_resource() on a resource that has children, all
| >| of those children are silently removed from the list too.  Does anybody
| >| currently depend on that behaviour?
| >| 
| >
| ...
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| >| 
| >| 
| >| Comments?
| >
| >Ideally (or if nothing depends on the current behavior), I think it
| >should just be an error (return -EINVAL), not a BUG_ON().  I.e.,
| >releasing a resource should be an explicit action.
| >
| >
| 
| -EBUSY?

Yes, that makes more sense.

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~Randy
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